Table 5.

Poor health status of parents of children ages 17 and younger, by child’s Mexican identification

	3rd Generation	4th+ Generation
Percent of fathers reporting poor health status:
Child identified as Mexican	7.75	8.29
	(.39)	(.30)
Child not identified as Mexican	5.58	4.89
	(.69)	(.43)
All	7.35	7.51
	(.34)	(.25)
Percent of mothers reporting poor health status:
Child identified as Mexican	6.39	7.13
	(.35)	(.28)
Child not identified as Mexican	6.67	6.41
	(.75)	(.49)
All	6.44	6.96
	(.32)	(.24)

Source: 1996–2017 CPS March supplement data. Standard errors are shown in parentheses. The samples include US-born children ages 17 and below who live in intact families. Third-generation Mexicans are US-born, have two US-born parents, and at least one grandparent born in Mexico. Fourth+-generation Mexicans are US-born, have two US-born parents, have no grandparents born in Mexico, and at least one parent who identifies as Mexican on the Hispanic origin question